We study how species can adapt to their environment, if adaptation is fast enough to prevent extinction, and how the interaction between natural and sexual selection can affect local adaptation. To do this, we rely on field observations and experiments, as well as experimental evolution in the lab, together with the odd mathematical model.
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Gómez -Llano, M., Faria, G., García-Roa, R., Noble, D., and P. Carazo. 2023. Male harm supresses female fitness to affect the dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary rescue. Evolution Letters pdf
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Gómez -Llano, M., Scott, E., and Svensson, E. 2021. The importance of pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection in adaptation to increasing temperatures. Current Zoology 67 (3): 321-327 pdf.
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Gómez-LLano, M., Narasimhan, A., and Svensson, E. 2020. Male-male competition causes parasite-mediated sexual selection for local adaptation. The American Naturalist. 196 (3): 344-354 pdf.
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Svensson, E., Goedert, D., Gómez-Llano, M., Spagopoulou, F., Nava-Bolaños, A., and Booksmythe, I. 2018. Sex differences in local adaptation: what can we learn from reciprocal transplant experiments? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373: 20170420 pdf.
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Local Adaptation
Species Coexistence
Community ecology help us to understand the natural process that determine the maintenance and distribution of biological diversity. Our work is focus in understanding how multiple factors, including reproductive dynamics, can facilitate or prevent coexistence between competing species.
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Gómez -Llano, M., Boys, W., Ping, T., Tye, S., and A. Siepielski. 2023. Multivariate trade-offs prevent species coexistence. Journal of Animal Ecology pdf
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Gómez -Llano, M., Germain, R., Kyogoku, D., McPeek, M. and A. Siepielski. 2021. When ecology fails: how reproductive interactions promote species coexistence. TREE 36 (7): 610-622 pdf
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Svensson, E., Gómez-Llano, M., Bench, H. and Rivas, A. 2018. Frequency dependence and ecological drift shape coexistence of species with similar niches. The American Naturalist 191 (6): 691-703 pdf.
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